Health Minister Jenny Mikakos
She served as the minister for health minister for ambulance services and minister for the coordination of health and human services covid 19 as well as deputy leader of the government but resigned these positions and from.
Health minister jenny mikakos. Victorian health minister jenny mikakos tells the inquiry she does not know who suggested and approved the use of private security guards in the state s bungled hotel quarantine program. Victorian premier daniel andrews says health minister jenny mikakos made the right decision to resign from parliament and has announced that martin foley will take up her portfolio. Former health minister jenny mikakos has suggested premier daniel andrews may have lied to an inquiry established to find out how victoria s second deadly wave of covid 19 spread.
As the coronavirus crisis descended on victoria her. Ms mikakos s ill fated tenure as health minister began in 2018 when she took the reins from jill hennessy as part of a cabinet reshuffle. The political career of health minister jenny mikakos came to an end on saturday after she resigned from parliament over victoria s disastrous hotel quarantine program that unleashed the state s.
Jenny mikakos born 25 january 1969 is a former australian politician for the labor party who was a member of the legislative council of victoria from 1999 to 2020. Embattled victorian health minister jenny mikakos has resigned from cabinet and will quit parliament after premier daniel andrews named her accountable for the failed hotel quarantine program at. The victorian premier daniel andrews says jenny mikakos s decision to quit as the state s health minister was appropriate but refused to elaborate on why he believed it was the.
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